

Culture critic Dan Kois is up today with a list of new books that will take you around the world … and then some. Jonathan Raban’s Driving Home has the USA covered, Siddhartha Deb’s The Beautiful and the Damned hits India, and Craig Thompson’s Habibi ventures to North Africa. Frank Bill’s Crimes in Southern Indiana, meanwhile, is about a trip of a whole other kind. (Hint: It’s about drugs.)